Xtra Time Web Desk: Team India pacers Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav and Harshal Patel have kept themselves in the top bracket with a base price of INR 2 crore ahead of IPL 2024 auction. All four capped Indian players have been released by their franchises. Some of the biggest names in world cricket have registered their names for the much-awaited auction of IPL 2024 season. A total of 1166 players have registered their names for IPL 2024 auction which will take place in Dubai on December 19.
Several World Cup winning Australian players have registered themselves for the auction. The likes of Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Sean Abbott, Josh Inglis and Steve Smith have kept their base price of INR 2 crore.
Among the 1166 players, 830 are Indian players, with 336 being overseas players. The list incorporates 212 capped, 909 uncapped, and 45 Associate players. Of the 830 Indians, 18 are capped players, namely Varun Aaron, KS Bharat, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shivam Mavi, Shahbaz Nadeem, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Harshal Patel, Chetan Sakariya, Mandeep Singh, Barinder Sran, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Hanuma Vihari, Sandeep Warrier and Umesh Yadav.
As many as 21 cricketers from England have enrolled their names for the IPL 2024 auction. They include the names of Rehan Ahmed (Rs 50 lakh), Gus Atkinson (Rs 1 cr), Tom Banton (Rs 2 cr), Sam Billings (Rs 1 cr), Harry Brook (Rs 2 cr), Brydon Carse (Rs 50 lakh), Tom Curran (Rs 1.5 cr), Ben Duckett (Rs 2 cr), George Garton (Rs 50 lakh), Richard Gleeson (Rs 50 lakh), Samuel Hain (Rs 50 lakh), Chris Jordan (Rs 1.5 cr), Dawid Malan (Rs 1.5 cr), Tymal Mills (Rs 1.5 cr), Jamie Overton (Rs 2 cr), Ollie Pope (Rs 50 lakh), Adil Rashid (Rs 2 cr), Philip Salt (Rs 1.5 cr), George Scrimshaw (Rs 50 lakh), Olly Stone (Rs 75 lakh), David Willey (Rs 2 cr), Chris Woakes (Rs 2 cr) and Luke Wood (Rs 50 lakh).
There are, of course, players from South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Scotland, UAE and the USA.